IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover
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| Developer(s) | 1C:Maddox Games |
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| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
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| Genre(s) | Combat flight simulator |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, Multiplayer |
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| GameRankings | 51.40% |
| Metacritic | 60/100 |
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| Publication | Score |
| GameSpot | 4/10 |
| IGN | 6/10 |
| PC Gamer (UK) | 72% |
| PC Gamer (US) | 45% |
IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover is a World War II combat flight simulator developed by the Russian software house 1C:Maddox Games. It inherits the name IL-2 Sturmovik from the Il-2 Sturmovik classical series (2001-2009) and is considered as being a part of the series, but it runs its own game engine instead of sharing it with the classic series.
During development the game was originally called Storm of War: Battle of Britain and scheduled as a November 2006 release. In January 2011 Ubisoft revealed the current name for the game and release date of 31 March 2011. Upon Russian and EU release, the developers acknowledged a number of serious bugs and performance issues. These were somewhat corrected via patches from 1C Maddox and further stabilized and enhanced by community patches from Team Fusion. In October 2012, it was revealed on the 1C forums that development had fallen short of the original goals and that 1C Maddox was unwilling to continue supporting the title. Cliffs of Dover was planned to be supplemented by a new theater, Moscow, but 1C chose not to develop this new software, instead incorporating a similar, Russian, theatre into the next title in the series, IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad.
The game was met with very mixed reception upon release, as GameRankings gave it a score of 51.40%, while Metacritic gave it 60 out of 100.
On 11 December 2012, a IL-2 Sturmovik sequel titled IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad was announced. The sequel is developed by 1C Company and 777 Studios which is the developer of the WWI flight simulator, Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War.
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